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 Post subject: 6th Cosmobilities Conference 2010, Aalborg, Denmark Posted: 21.12.2009 22:37 |
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6th Cosmobilities Conference 2010
Aalborg University, Denmark
Call for Papers
Cultures of Mobilities: Everyday life, Communication, and Politics
Abstract submissions are invited for the ‘The Cultures of Mobilities: Everyday life,
Communication, and Politics’ conference, to be held in Aalborg, Denmark, on October 27-29 2010.
| Quote: | The conference is open to students, scholars, and professionals from various fields interested in the
theoretical or applied study of mobilities.
Different forms of mobilities have increased dramatically in recent decades and are today essential
for many spheres of contemporary societies. In various research disciplines mobility is still often
thought of as a matter of rational organization, an important competitive feature in a global world,
or as a dominating stratifying factor. As such, mobility is immanently connected to material
practices of movement and access - or its opposites. However, what is less discussed in the recent
debates on mobility research is that mobilities are not just material, but also signifying practices.
Mobilities have just as much to do with the production of meaning and culture. The 2010 ‘Cultures
of Mobilities’ conference therefore takes up the challenge to theorize and analyze mobilities from
the vantage point of a cultural perspective. The conference suggests that mobilities are understood
with a particular emphasis on how they produce and re-produce norms, meanings and cultures.
The conference focuses particularly on the perspective of ‘Cultures of Mobilities’ within 3 different
themes: Everyday life, Communication and Politics.
The Everyday life perspective considers how
the organization of everyday life mobilities produces and re-produces particular sets of values and
norms relating to mobilities? It explores the ways in which everyday life mobilities are being
organized, and ask if they are giving birth to new social communities and perspectives on social
interaction, or eroding social connectivity?
The Communication perspective considers how new
digital communication technologies influence mobility practices and how they may create
affordance to particular ways of engaging with mobilities? This part may also involve
intercultural/cross-cultural perspectives on mobility as well as representation of mobilities in for
example, literature, media, documentary, cinema, computer games and fiction.
Finally the Politics
perspective addresses how the new mobilities are being perceived politically; Are the political
perceptions particularly encouraging or discouraging particular forms of mobility? Are there
specific norms and cultures related to the ways states and governmental systems create policies for
mobilities? Under this theme, critical perspectives, ‘the environment’, ‘mobility as a right’ and
power/social stratification at scales from the neighbourhood to global mega-regions, are also
encouraged.
Authors are invited to send in abstracts of maximum 300 words within these themes; however
contributions that moves beyond these themes may also be considered.
The conference is jointly
organised by the Centre for Mobility and Urban Studies (C-MUS) at Aalborg University, Denmark
and the Cosmobilities Network. The registration process will open in February 2010.
The
conference registration fee is 165 EUR (for faculty and other professionals). Reduced rate for
students: 80 EUR. |
Contact:
Ole B. Jensen
Department of Architecture and Design
Gammel Torv 6
Room: 206
DK - 9000 Aalborg
obje [ AT ] aod.aau.dk
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